Word: kadar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were such old war-hens of the party as the U.S.'s grandmotherly Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, 71, and overblown Dolores Ibarruri, the famed La Pasionaria of the Spanish Civil War. And there were men whose hands are bloodied by countless executions, like Hungary's sad-eyed Janos Kadar and Argentina's fat Victorio Codovilla, who once was Stalin's top agent in Spain, and such party hacks as France's Maurice Thorez and Italy's Palmiro Togliatti, both symbols of failure from countries that, scarcely a decade ago, seemed on the brink of Communism...
...China's Mao Tse-tung, the exalted twosome of Communism. One after the other, Khrushchev's Soviet comrades called down fire and brimstone on the anti-party group and defiant Albania. Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka, East Germany's tottering Walter Ulbricht, Hungary's Kadar, Czechoslovakia's Novotny and Rumania's Gheorghiu-Dej followed suit...
...That scheme raised some fascinating questions. By Ghana's rule that South Africa is not fit to be a member because it defies U.N. principles, could Red China, which actually waged war against the U.N. in Korea, ever attain U.N. membership? Could Russia and the regime of Janos Kadar, which defied the U.N. on the Hungarian question, retain their U.N. seats? On such matters, the African states seemed resolutely dedicated to a double standard...
...Europe that go back to 1926, Gunther extracts such conversational bits of color as the Albanians' name for their country (Shqiperia), Khrushchev's scholastic record (he was illiterate until his mid 20s), what Mr. K. and Tito have in common with Hungary's boss, Janos Kadar, and Czechoslovakia's Antonin Novotny (all were once locksmiths). His sidelights often illuminate the mood of a country more effectively than pages of analysis. Discussing West Germany's affluence, Gunther reports slyly that an elaborate marble trough in a restaurant washroom was for "gentlemen who had dined too well...
...half a dozen small countries. His most bewildering display was at a big shindig in the Soviet Union's Park Avenue mansion, where Khrushchev greeted an astonished Dag Hammarskjold with an affectionate bear hug. Explaining his antic behavior to a crony, Hungary's ill-starred Janos Kadar, Khrushchev said: "In the Caucasus Mountains they have a custom-while a man is under your roof he is your friend, but when he goes outside you can slit his throat...